Signs You Have A Bad Relationship With Your Mobile Device

Interacting with the device keeps you up late or otherwise interferes with your sleep.

It reduces the time you have to be with friends or family.

It interferes with your ability to finish work or homework.

It causes you to be rude, even subconsciously. “For instance,” Lembke asks, “are you in the middle of having a conversation with someone and just dropping down and scrolling through your phone?” That’s a bad sign.

It’s squelching your creativity. “I think that’s really what people don’t realize with their smartphone usage,” Lembke says. “It can really deprive you of a kind of seamless flow of creative thought that generates from your own brain.”